Anyone using CDP and if so for what? We have a fileserver with 18TB of data and its a real bear to backup, so I can only imagine what a recovery would be like. Its a VM running in vSphere 6.7 and each of the 11 drives is its own VMDK, but two are 6TB and a 3rd is 3TB. Im wondering if CDP might be the way to go and was looking for any real world experiences.

TIA

Continuous Data Protection is often sought after as the holy grail of VM workload protection. This post break down the fundamentals of CDP!

https://anthonyspiteri.net/continuous-data-protection-why/

Hi all,

It's time to consult the hive mind on this one I think as i'm struggling to find a good technical solution.

A client has an Azure RDS farm. There is a single volume on the DC which contains both UPD share and file shares. (There's more work on the Azure farm which can be done, like moving to FSLogix, scale out file server for the UPDs etc but what we have for now is what we have)
We are already backing up in Azure.

They have a preference to having a select set of folders which no one should be able to delete data in. They also want to be able to rename files in that though (and obviously, this breaks NTFS permissions). They want to retain the backups for 7 years for compliance purposes.

Shadowprotect SPX only does volume level and only 15 minute incrementals. I don't want to take the whole volume because of the UPDs.

The underlying workflow is:

Team member creates relevant data in "working" folder. Once complete, they move it to completed

A team member from another team checks the work, then once checked, moves it to finalised. This is the stage where it cannot be deleted and must be a permanent record.

I see my options here as being:

- Move the shared folders to a separate volume from the UPD and enable Shadow Copy. This is likely to chew up substantial data if I take a copy every 3 minutes and retain for 7 years.

- Move the shared folders to Azure Files and back that up. It looks like we can only retain 200 snapshots, which, if it was every 3 minutes, would run through very quickly.

- I guess I could write a robocopy script to copy everything every 3 minutes, but it won't copy open files.

- some kind of document management system which implements the necessary security (this would also help with the permissions as creating the folder structure isn't very scalable just now

Trinity Chemical Industries (TCIX Rail), a railcar leasing company from Oklahoma, USA, achieves continuous data protection and a small amount, let's drop with NAKIVO Backup & Replication and QNAP NAS. Read more here: https://www.nakivo.com/customers/success-stories/nakivo-ensures-continuous-data-protection-for-railcar-leasing-company/

https://preview.redd.it/pedqezzczgn51.jpg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=37111bb2ea09f06b968c2e406f3fc7364747e125

So, I've recently gone solo again as a consultant, after finally having had enough of being an under-paid, under-appreciated Jr SysAdmin for a poorly run 3 man Small-Business Managed IT Services co. maintaining a pool of ~20 small business clients.

One of my newest & first clients since going solo again is a small accountancy & book-keeping operation that currently run several W7 machines in a workgroup config and use a DropBox-like cloud based solution as a shared drive with the owners' home machine running a scheduled task to copy the DropBox folder every night to a different drive as an off-site backup solution. Among the many problems with this implementation is that every so often someone accidentally deletes a file or overwrites to the wrong file in the DropBox folder, and everyone has to wait for bossman to come around and RDP into his home machine and replace the file with the copy that was backed up the night before. For this and other reasons they want to move their shared folder back on to a central local disk, but don't want to pull the trigger on an SBS deployment, and don't want any of the local workstations hosting the share.

The answer then, sems to be a NAS solution. We've determined all they need is something like a fairly basic QNAP NAS device. All it needs to do is:

1.-Have two drive bays, and support a RAID 1 mirror.

2.-Support NTFS permissions for the machine & local account based file & folder access permissions to the NAS volumes

3.-Support Rsync or something similar and secure so that he can do his nightly offsite remote incremental backups of only changed files/folders onto a drive on his home machine, instead of having to FTP-SSL the whole (albeit small) data volume over the WAN every night.

SO FAR SO GOOD - This QNAP TS-212 does all that and a lot more for less than $200

But here's where i'm getting stuck..

4.- We also need the NAS to have built in support for something like File Revision Control, Continuous data protection, or Shadow Copy, so that each mirrored disk has 2 NTFS volumes:

• a small volume to actually hold the the NTFS partition for the for the Shared Folders,

• and a larger one to hold backups of any recent file revisions or changes made in real-time to the shared folders. So that everytime someone opens a spread sheet in a shared folder, edits it, and saves the changes, the previous ver

Our latest beta version of Altaro VM Backup (v7.6) is now available for download.

• Continuous Data Protection (CDP) – Shift from running daily backups and offsite copies to a continuous data protection model resulting in much better Recovery Point Objective (RPO).
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• Resilient CBT for Window Server 2012/2012 R2 – Faster and more efficient CBT which will now continue working after a Host Reboots, an Altaro VM Backup upgrade or VMs moving between Failover Cluster Nodes.

Please remember this is a BETA, therefore we strongly recommend that you do not install it on a production environment.

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I found out about Vader (Coingecko) few days ago but I can't stop reading about it. I think this is the most cutting edge liquidity protocol out there. It is entirely fair launched, and it has been built from the ground up based on DeFi user feedback in the last 2 years. Thanks to Vader we will have a truly decentralized, censorship resistant stablecoin with a slip based fee AMM (to bootstrap demand from day 1) and long term protocol owned (DAO governed) liquidity via bond sales.

History

The idea has been brewing for almost 2 years (as I have found out by sifting through their Discord server all night) among a huge group of DeFi fanatics (or DeFi OGs, call them how you want) looking for ways to handle the aches and frustrations of DeFi users through these years: fleeing liquidity, bad tokenomics, impermanent loss. VADER solves all of these problems by bringing together the best of LUNA, Thorchain and Olympus. The current team consists of 7 experienced Solidity devs and 3 front end devs.

https://preview.redd.it/nwman5ngul381.jpg?width=400&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=edd2e0062b9a3300ae7bd765590c72661c58d2ff

Tokenomics

As stated in the title, VADER has burn to mint tokenomics. This means that as demand for stablecoin among users increases (Vader uses its stable USDV as settlement asset) more VADER is burnt making the VADER token more valuable. This is LUNA's battle tested stablecoin mechanism, which led it to create the fastest growing stablecoin, the UST.

USDV minting and single side staking for USDV and VADER are scheduled for release this quarter (Q4 2021).

https://preview.redd.it/2zrqx202vl381.jpg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f5f38e29f3120301ef9af7c4686822960c2e8eab

LPs are first class citizens

Liquidity is key in every defi protocol, LPs for example can suffer impermanent losses when they put an asset in a pool and the price of the asset changes in the meantime. This is known as impermanent loss (impermanent because the price can go back up, but it also may not). Moreover, in many cases LPs have to agree to provide liquidity for a flat fee even when in certain occasions some traders may be willing to pay more like when market conditions are such that slippage is high. To address these problems Vader borrowed what has been tested to work on Thorchain and has implemented impermanent loss protection

We are currently using the old Sonicwall CDP product and it has saved our bacon many times. A lot of those times are from over-written files and same day changes. The Sonicwall is EOL and they (Dell) don't make a newer one. So we are looking for a new solution.

I have contacts out to CrashPlan, Backblaze and SpiderOak. What else is out there? I am interested in the clould, but also OK with on premise. Of course, cost will be a huge factor. We are backing up about 100 machines.

Thanks!

Hi All - This issue has been solved! Thank you all for your help!

I'm trying to make a bar graph that shows the age of all the customers that use a BikeShare service. the graph works fine before I add the scale_x_continuous to remove the outliers. Once I do add it, I get the following warnings:

arning in min(x) : no non-missing arguments to min; returning Inf Warning in max(x) : no non-missing arguments to max; returning -Inf Warning in min(diff(sort(x))) : no non-missing arguments to min; returning Inf Warning: Removed 900000 rows containing non-finite values (stat_count).

I've been researching for a while now and can't seem to find out a solution. I have tried omitting NA, making sure the data is loaded correctly, changing the range of the scale_x_continous.

Here is my private bin, with a little more of an example https://privatebin.net/?f25d5535891ecc01#GuiN6f6D51iivSsvgDki2AZCWcex5iqt3RHKcKZBLvDQ

I’m new to Tableau and have using the free public version.

I insert an excel file and was playing around with the different graph options and noticed I couldn’t get a line graph to show up. I found out it could be due to non-continuous data that I have.

For example, let’s say that data that I am working with has the number of headphones sales per month. But for some reason there are several months they don’t sell any headphones. The data doesn’t report for those months not even “0”. (This is not the data I working with just an example).

How can I account for this in Tableau and make a line graph?

frequently we have customer contact us say "there is a virus popup come up every minute, nonstop i cannot work". they sent this type of screenshot:

https://preview.redd.it/f1cdcuq442m71.png?width=826&format=png&auto=webp&s=36e7c263e70896e660a1c42fcf812573b07f7f34

after investigate, we found that it is built-in windows anti-malware that is catching something atera client is doing. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/protect-your-pc-from-ransomware-08ed68a7-939f-726c-7e84-a72ba92c01c3

so we must go in settings and Allow the action. then the popup disappear. unfortunately it will come back several months later.

https://preview.redd.it/wa2m7x4v42m71.png?width=684&format=png&auto=webp&s=39dcef0ecfbcfbc36ecc634620546c554fe7e4c5

we have no problem with any software conflict with windows anti-malware. is it possible atera fix this and make sure they don't trigger these alerts that impact our client work?

Спасибо

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